HSHU 464 - Modern Japan:Continuity and Change

Institution:

Catholic University of America

Subject:

Honors Sequence Humanities

Description:

Beginning with the "Meiji Restoration" of 1868, Japan experienced a remarkable and distinctive process of modernization, which drew from the nation's traditional culture and society but absorbed much from the West as a result of Japanese determination to catch up. Throughout this period, Japan displayed a unique gift for selectively incorporating ideology and developmental models borrowed from elsewhere. This course examines cultural and social change over the past one and a quarter centuries; it focuses primarily upon literature and language change, cinema, and education as, simultaneously, important factors of, and factors effecting and shaping, that change; and it explores the complex interactions between traditional and modern factors.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.cua.edu

Phone Number:

(202) 319-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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